Ethan Dodd – Visual Artist. Cardiff, Wales

December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

Julius Robert Oppenheimer, shortly after realising what horrors he had wrought on the Earth through his creation of the Atomic Bomb

‘We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, ‘Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.’ I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.’